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Dexter,
1925

Samuel
Dexter: Educated at Harvard and trained as a lawyer, Samuel Dexter
(1761-1816) resigned his seat as Massachusetts Senator in June 1800 to
accept the position of Secretary of War in the cabinet of President John
Adams. Upon Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott's resignation in
December 1800, Adams appointed Dexter ad interim Secretary to serve until
the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as President. Dexter served less than a
year in Adams's cabinet and has no great acts associated with his name. It
has been said that "his temperament and intellectual endowment ill
suited him for that minute diligence and attention to intricate details
which the departments of War and Finance imposed on the incumbents of
office.''

Shortly
before the termination of Adams's administration, the President offered
Dexter a foreign embassy, but Dexter declined, remaining at the Treasury
Department until Jefferson became President.

Type/Rig/Class:
100-foot patrol boat

Builder:
Defoe Boat & Motor Works, Bay City, Michigan

Dates
of Service: 1925 - 1936

Disposition:
Transferred to the US Navy

Displacement:
210 tons

Length:
99' 8"

Beam:
23'

Draft:
4' 6"

Machinery:
2 Grey Marine diesel engines; 300 BHP; twin propellers

Speed:
12 knots maximum

Complement:
15 (with 1 warrant officer)

Armament: 1
x 3"/23

Cutter
History:

The
third cutter named Dexter, a 100-foot patrol boat built to
combat rum-runners during Prohibition, was one of 13 in her class.
These 13 were steel-hulled patrol boats that were capable of close inshore
work but were slower than the 75-foot patrol boats. They made up for
their slower speed and lack of maneuverability with better accommodations
for the crew so that they could stay at sea for longer periods and work well
off-shore. They were all built by Defoe Boat & Motor Works of Bay
City, Michigan.

The Dexter
was stationed at Boston, Massachusetts until 1927 and was then transferred
to Pascagoula, Mississippi late in that same year. She was transferred
to Buffalo, New York, by 1935 and was decommissioned in 1936. She was
then transferred to the U.S. Navy.